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Animal Well Discussion (Nintendo Switch) [game]
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05/10/24, 16:51 |
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nate38 said:Animal Well is a lot more forgiving while still asking a lot of the player if they're going it alone, and even has a perfect little off-ramp for the player to shelve it when the credits roll after a worthy final challenge, but well before the game's given up all of its optional challenges and pickups for true sickos who want more out of it. Yeah, I think Animal Well absolutely nails this. I had a big issue with Tunic requiring you find 10 fairies in order to get one of the final pages. That intermingling of its layers, combined with having such a huge world, made the last third of the game feel really monotonous. But Animal Well's main path felt climactic enough, and it's secrets are obtuse enough, that I could have happily put the game down after hitting the credits. But the world is small, so I've kept popping in to knock out a few more collectibles every now and then without feeling pressured to. 12 hours in, I've got 55 eggs and had run out of ideas for where to find more, but at the last second before putting the game down during my last session, I had a crazy idea and realized what I'm supposed to do to solve a certain deep game-spanning puzzle. Now I'm tantalized and can't wait to play more. |
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@Secret_TunnelCan I get a hint? I just played a half hour earlier with zilch to show for it. Feels bad, man. I'm at I think 52 eggs and I've found a number of post-game extra deals. I've gotten all the candles and did the stuff directly from/after that. I have a lot of loose ends and weird things I've taken screens of but with no idea what to do with them: POST-GAME SPOILERS PROBABLY 1) A few sets of arrow directions on the walls only viewable with certain items. I thought these would correspond to the Flute, but nope.2) Weird little baby-bottle shapes on a few walls only viewable with that one thing. No idea what to do with these.3) Numbers on the doors of the big clock.4) That rabbit pixel painting thing. I figured out a way to alter it and have even found a nearby secret that seems to hint at something, but again, not sure what to do with it.5) The jellyfish hold a UV hint as well that I wrote down on the map. But again, don't know what to do with these.6) Pressing UP a lot seems to turn my character into...an apple? Huh?As for items, I currently have (big spoilers) the UV light, the better Bubble, the Remote, and the Top.And the darned Kangaroo is very fickle on when/where he shows up. I gotta see him again! I'm at the point where I don't want to actually look anything up yet, but it's getting disheartening not finding stuff at the moment, so I need some new leads. With Tunic there was still a pretty clear goal in mind in the late-game, but I'm starting to feel like I'm just spinning my wheels since I'm unsure of what the endgame here is (outside of just getting all the eggs). |
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@TriforceBunI wrote up a whole long thing about the candles for you, then realized that you'd already done that, so I looked at your spoilers haha. I'll respond to each one vaguely; for the most part I'm just as stumped as you are, but there's one little thing you're missing that applies to a couple of these: TriforceBun said:@Secret_Tunnel POST-GAME SPOILERS PROBABLY
1) A few sets of arrow directions on the walls only viewable with certain items. I thought these would correspond to the Flute, but nope.
RESPONSE: You're right, you're just not playing it in the right spot. Think about where you discovered the first one of these, and experiment with a narrative loose end in that area. (This seems like it would be difficult to go back and realize after the fact...)
I've also found one longer set of arrow directions with the UV light that should work anywhere you play it; if that one didn't work for you, try it again, you might've just missed an input.
2) Weird little baby-bottle shapes on a few walls only viewable with that one thing. No idea what to do with these.
RESPONSE: I only just encountered these myself; I think these are just egg hints.
3) Numbers on the doors of the big clock.
RESPONSE: Only just found these myself, and yeah, I'm really curious how to increment them. I have one idea for what to do with them that's a long shot.
4) That rabbit pixel painting thing. I figured out a way to alter it and have even found a nearby secret that seems to hint at something, but again, not sure what to do with it.
RESPONSE: I figured out how to alter it too, not sure if it corresponds to anything on the puzzle.
5) The jellyfish hold a UV hint as well that I wrote down on the map. But again, don't know what to do with these.
RESPONSE: You know what to do with these, you just weren't standing in the right spot.
6) Pressing UP a lot seems to turn my character into...an apple? Huh?
RESPONSE: I realized this last night too and have no clue haha. I'll also say in general that there are three or four BIG puzzles I've solved that have all triggered a very specific thing to happen which has started to point me to what the "third layer" to this game is beyond hitting the credits and finding all the eggs. I don't quite know how to quantify my progress yet, but it seems quantifiable. If you've been this observant so far, you will eventually figure these out! Keep paying attention to little details, filling out holes in your map, and taking important note of the occasional obvious big hints you'll run into. |
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@Secret_TunnelThanks for the replies! Interestingly, it sounds like we're pretty much at the same spot now since I had a little luck last night and more or less figured out what to do with point #1 up there (although I'm missing a single one, it seems like). And I imagine the results of that is what you were getting at with your "three or four BIG puzzles" thing--I'm guessing that's all related to getting to or otherwise "freeing" some of the animals. I have found a couple of rabbits beyond some rather devious puzzles... I also looked up a couple small things because I needed a hint on one of my new items, and I wanted to know what was up with the skulls in that one late-game room near the final boss: apparently, one shows up there each time you die and you can only get the contents of the chest if you go through deathless. But due to this, the chest itself is more of a little extra reward than something functional.Speaking of that room, I noticed that the faces on the wall correspond to different directions which made me originally think the Flute would be a solution. But when I tried applying the different notes to the series of faces in the room on the top-right corner of the map (which I thought would lead to a rabbit), nothing happened. Not sure if I did it wrong or if I'm completely on the wrong track, but I thought that would work... It's a neat game. I feel like it's a good candidate for lots of stories and combined puzzle-solving, but at the same time I'm worried about getting TOO much information given to me. |
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@TriforceBunThat's good to know about the skull room, I'd have never realized that otherwise. You're on the right track with the hint in that room, you just once again need to play that song somewhere else.The rabbits are indeed what I'm referring to as the "third layer" of the game. I keep finding them as a solve some of these wilder puzzles. As far as the cats go, I still need to find two more of those codes. My momentum's definitely slowing down though—it feels like all I can do at this point is continue combing the map. I have a hunch there's one remaining big item that I have left to find prior to collecting all the eggs, but I've already exhausted all the major anomalies that I've found in the game world, so I'm stumped on where to find it! Specifically, I have 7 eggs left to find, and I know where at least a few of them are, if not all of them. To get to them, I'll need some kind of hamster wheel item that lets me roll on spikes and move those mechanical platforms. The only two ideas I have for finding this item are freeing all of the cats or defeating the bat. Anyone done either of these? |
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